The two girls saw Lin Fan’s knitted brows and they could tell that he had noticed something.
Lala came up to Lin Fan and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Fan didn’t reply at first as he came to the side of the clearing to look at the tracks that were left there.
Both Lala and Xiao Yue followed him over, but neither of them were able to find anything strange here. These were just normal tracks that showed that humans had passed by here. With the trap that was installed here, that wasn’t strange at all.
But Lin Fan had knitted his brows even more when he saw this.
Lala finally couldn’t take it anymore, so she grabbed Lin Fan before he could do anything else and asked, “What’s wrong with this place?”
Lin Fan snapped out of his thoughts after hearing this and realized that he had just been walking in a daze without saying anything.
He turned to the two girls and explained, “They haven’t been telling the truth about the snake spirit beast. It didn’t attack them first, but rather they attacked it first.”
Both girls once again revealed doubtful looks, but they knew not to say anything as they waited for Lin Fan to explain.
Lin Fan pointed at the tracks underneath them and said, “These aren’t just human tracks, but there are traces of spirit beasts here.” He pointed at a scale on the ground and said, “This is the scale of a Blue Jade Snake.” Then he pointed at a strand of hair on the ground, “This is a strand of fur from a Blaze Ox.”
He continued pointing out many different parts of different spirit beasts that had been left behind on the ground. The more parts he pointed out, the more shocked Lala and Xiao Yue looked.
They never knew that Lin Fan knew this much about spirit beasts.
Of course, it wasn’t that Lin Fan actually knew a lot about spirit beasts, but rather he was using his Appraisal Eyes.
With the Appraisal Eyes, he was able to see through the identities of all these minor parts left behind. All he was doing was just repeating the descriptions that had popped up when he looked at them.
But Lala and Xiao Yue were shocked by the amount of knowledge that he was demonstrating.
As he listed more and more, they became more and more certain that his guess was correct.
Seeing the look of understanding and admiration on their faces, Lin Fan stopped listing the different spirit beasts parts and turned his attention back to the snake by the lake as he said, “Based on the injuries of the snake, the village should have attacked it many times already. However, they still haven’t been able to take down the snake even after all these attempts…”
Both Lala and Xiao Yue just waited for Lin Fan to finish his thought.
Since he had already figured out everything, there was no need for them to think deeper. All they needed to do was trust him like they had done all this time.
After being in deep thought for a bit, Lin Fan finally started walking forward as he said, “Come, let’s go back to the pool.”
Both of them were confused, but they didn’t say a thing as they followed Lin Fan back to the pool.
At the lake, the snake was still curled up sleeping, as if it hadn’t noticed a thing. However, that wasn’t strange since Lin Fan and the two girls all had a higher cultivation than the snake.
It wasn’t hard for them to hide themselves from this snake.
Lin Fan once again silently observed the snake for a bit before suddenly calling out Hayase. Then without any alertness, he walked out of the spot that they had been hiding in and came right up to the snake.
As soon as he came out, the snake’s eyes suddenly opened and it turned in Lin Fan’s direction, looking at Lin Fan with a wary look.
Lin Fan didn’t move any closer when the snake looked up at it, as he just stood there in silence.
There was a tense silence that appeared in the air between the two of them, as they were both trying to figure out the other side.
But in the end, the one who broke the silence was Hayase that Lin Fan summoned.
Hayase said, “We’re not here to hurt you, we’re just here to talk.”
As soon as Hayase spoke, the snake realized that there was someone else that was beside Lin Fan. Before Hayase spoke, the snake had only been focused on Lin Fan.
But now that it saw this dragon, it realized that the aura coming from this dragon was just as dangerous as the one coming from Lin Fan.
After a long silence, the snake gave a hiss.
Hayase quickly replied, “We want to talk about the humans that have been attacking you for the past while.”
As soon as these humans were mentioned, the snake immediately looked around itself with another wary look. However, when it couldn’t sense any humans other than Lin Fan, Hayase, and the two girls who followed Lin Fan out, it calmed down a bit and gave another hiss.
Hayase replied, “We don’t want to hurt you, we just want some information about those people.”
The snake looked at Lin Fan with a wary look still, but then it suddenly let its head sink and it waved its tail for them to follow it. The snake slithered over to the side of the pool and pointed at the bottom of the pool.
As for why the snake showed this to them that easily, it was because it knew that even if it resisted, it wouldn’t be able to resist for long. It was better to play along for now while these people still didn’t try to do anything against it.
Lin Fan and Hayase both came over without any fear since they knew that the snake wouldn’t be able to sneak up on them, there was just too much of a difference in cultivation realms.
When they peered through the pool, they found that there were snake eggs that were at the bottom.
Lin Fan didn’t understand at first, but after he used his Appraisal Eyes on the eggs, he realized why the village wanted to kill the snake so badly.
They wanted to kill the snake so they could steal its eggs.
This snake was a Fire Eyed Snake and was a rare variant of snake spirit beast. The main reason why it was so rare was because it had been over hunted by humans who wanted them for no other reason than to have their eggs.
That was because the eggs of these Fire Eyed Snakes were very special.
When these Fire Eyed Snakes hatched from the eggs, the first creature that they saw was the most important thing in their lives. In nature, that would be their parents, but when they were caught, the first thing that they would see was the one that caught them.
This was what made these Fire Eyed Snakes the perfect pets and why people wanted them.
When they were fully grown, these Fire Eyed Snakes could even reach the Foundation Realm if they were trained properly…A Foundation Realm pet, what kind of concept was that?
It would be more than enough for one to carve out a piece of land as their own and rule over it like a king.
Which was why the village wanted these Fire Eyed Snake eggs.
But they couldn’t defeat the Fire Eyed Snake themselves, so they chose to send a request to the Mercenary Guild for help, making it seem like the Fire Eyed Snake had been attacking their village.
Then again, there were also many other shady things that were happening in the village…
It seemed like there was a need to investigate the village itself, otherwise it would be too late to feel regret if they tried something against him. Of course, that was already what Lin Fan was thinking when he left, so he had already left surveillance at the village.
All he was waiting for now was information from that surveillance.
After learning why the village kept attacking the snake, Lin Fan said a few things to Hayase in a low voice.
Hayase was surprised at first by what Lin Fan said, but he still translated for the snake, “Do you want to take revenge on the people who attacked you?”
The snake was also taken aback when it heard this.
It looked at Lin Fan with a shocked look before it couldn’t help giving a hiss.
Hayase translated this for the snake, “Why are you attacking humans? Aren’t you a human too?”
Lin Fan gave a chuckle before saying, “Well, there are good and bad humans. If you don’t defend yourself against the bad humans, you’ll be the one to suffer.”
When Hayase translated this, the snake didn’t really understand what Lin Fan meant by this. However, it could tell that Lin Fan was sincere about cooperating with it to take revenge on the village.
After thinking for a while, the snake gave a nod.
As this happened, there was a notification that appeared in front of Lin Fan.
With a smile, he said in his head, “Yes.”
There was a glow that appeared around the snake before Lin Fan pulled the snake and the eggs into the Pet Storage Space.
After that, Lin Fan was about to talk to the two girls about what they would do next, but then he suddenly knitted his brows.